An almost abstract view of a murmuration of starlings dodging as a peregrine falcon begins hunting them.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
An American alligator does its part to help curb the invasive population of Burmese pythons in Florida.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
🔥 A young snow leopard illustrates its displeasure after being startled by the clicking sound of a remote wildlife cam.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
A bearded vulture consuming a bone, it being the only animal known to get most nutrition from bone marrow.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A Orange Cave Dwarf Crocodile in Gabon compared to an ordinary Dwarf Crocodile, some feel that they are evolving into a new species.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Leopard displays what hate-drinking looks like at a watering hole with a hyena.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A female tiger doing a little dance-fighting to see off a young male tiger.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The water fills with blood as rival southern elephant seal bulls battle.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
🔥 Cape Vulture, Africa’s heaviest vulture and breeding bird of prey.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
The endangered Cuban Crocodile, despite its medium size, it is reportedly the most aggressive of all American crocodilians. When made to compete for food, it is said to dominate the larger American crocodile.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Not just a plant...it’s covered in ticks huddling as the weather gets cooler and I hate it.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The crowned eagle has a fondness for young primates as food, including humans and other apes1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A face off between a wolf and a cow bison, the wolf won the waiting game as the lethargic cow was killed in the night.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A brown hyena carries a freshly killed honey badger on wildlife camera trap.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A northern wheatear takes the opportunity to be top bird when its potential predator, an Eurasian sparrowhawk, is stunned and injured by flying into a window.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
An enormous humpback whale that seems like it could crush this boat during its breach.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A man trying to avoid provoking African Bush elephants and their unpredictable bad temper which makes them one of the most dangerous African mammals.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Spotted hyena becomes airborne informing vultures he’s not down to share this carrion.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
🔥 A moody shot with a towering, ghostly giraffe in the mist while a leopard passes.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
A great horned owl flying off with its daytime kill, a Swainson’s hawk.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A bison having that awkward moment when you step out and find yourself making extended eye contact with that neighbor you just don't trust.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The odd beak waiting at the end of all the tentacles from a giant squid.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The kind of lion that would give you a virus but luckily you’d die of being eaten first.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A carnivorous dinosaur (great blue heron) imperiously looks upon its prey (mud snake) after capture.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The scale of Paraceratherium which is one of the very largest land mammals of all time1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
A black caiman specimen measuring around 5.3 m/17.5 feet with some of the tail missing.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A golden battle breaking out between a golden eagle and a golden jackal2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The size of a Syrian camel, the largest fossil camel known with weights of up to 3 tons.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Don’t you hate when you’ve got a little impala stuck between your teeth.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A sanderling eats the protein out of a beached deadly Portuguese man-of-war.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Triceratops horridus skull at the Morrison Natural History Museum, CO1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
The huge polar bear nicknamed “Stan” when tranquilized; the weight documented for him was 803 kg or 1769 pounds3wk ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/badassanimals
Spotted hyenas dining on their kill, an old weakened male lion that surely loved to kill hyenas in his prime.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The African crowned eagle has proven to be the most regular living avian predator of primates, including monkeys up to female baboons and young apes including even children.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Rare photo of a snow leopard pursuing a Pallas’s cat in an apparent to kill it5mo ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/badassanimals
A nilgai, the largest Asian antelope, wishing a motherfucking leopard would.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The tyrant king of snakes takes it toll: a king cobra takes out a python1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A man winning the Darwin Award by posing for a selfie with a sloth bear after which he was mauled to death.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A grizzly bear stands over a moose kill after a lengthy struggle in somebody’s yard in Homer, Alaska1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
🔥 The nearly extinct Yangtze River Giant Softshell Turtle, likely the largest living freshwater turtle.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
A mute swan whose mate killed a fox for attempting to prey on their nest, then the swan pair apparently proceeded to nest almost on top of the fox's body.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Giant insular species in the barn owl family compared in size to a house cat.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
A mount of Arctodus simus, the monstrous short-faced bear with male weighs averaging nearly a ton1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Eurasian Badgers and Red Foxes, known den roommates. Just like human roommates, they usually get along pretty well but occasionally will murder one another and eat each others' kids.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Paleoloxodon namadicus, the largest fossil elephant and one of the largest land mammals ever, compared to the African bush elephant1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
A great black-backed gull after becoming entangled in a plastic bag is targeted by a juvenile bald eagle. The gull tried to go down fighting but the eagle ultimately got its meal.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Dire wolves weren’t actually much larger than modern gray wolves but had considerably more robust skulls.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Deinosuchus hatcheri is possibly the largest crocodylomorph of all-time, at estimates of up to 43 feet. At this size, it could’ve been heavier & possessed a more powerful bite than T. rex.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
🔥 Synchronized drinking for an African buffalo and its red-billed oxpecker ride along.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Smilodon populator with a clouded leopard, the modern cat with almost saber like teeth1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Artist working on a life-sized bust of Kaprosuchus, sometimes nicknamed the “boar-croc”1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
A Sarcosuchus skull, impressive still despite a downgrade to a 9.5 m/31.5 ft giant from a 12 m behemoth2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
🔥 Striking, beautiful king vultures but I know many of you are just going to see the robust chest cojones.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Epicyon haydeni, the largest canid in fossil record compared to the large nominate subspecies of extant wolf1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Showdown between a trumpeter swan, North America’s largest bird, and a coyote.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A desperate American lion steals the cub of a huge female short-faced bear1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Would you trade jobs with the guy who has to hand-feed fish to wild, huge American crocodiles in Costa Rica?1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The skull of Dimetrodon, the spine-backed synapsid predator of the Early Permian1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Steller’s sea cow, an enormous creature brought to extinction by humans, compared to the extant dugong (which is about the weight of a bison).1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
A mounted Deinonychus, the wolf-sized dromeosaur that served as the real inspiration (albeit still fictionalized) for Michael Cricthon’s “Velociraptors” in Jurassic Park.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Ornimegalonyx, the Cuban giant owl on record as the largest owl weighing around 30 lbs and a meter in height2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
🔥 The bearded vulture, the bone-eating giant bird which coats itself minerals like copper to get its rusty hue for unknown cosmetic reasons.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/NatureIsFuckingLit
Line up of cool extinct mammals at the American Museum of Natural History1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
No one would dare tell mamma hippopotamus that her baby was different.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
The scale of a Tyrannosaurus skull to an orca skull, two apex predators of nearly the same size, compared to the skull of a far more vicious apex predator11mo ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
A recreation to scale of the foot of a Haast's eagle, ths largest eagle known to have existed, to give one an idea of the last thing to be seen by many a moa (which included the tallest birds known to have existed at up to 12 feet tall) and by some poor Maori people.3yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
The slightly larger long-horned bison, which vies for the title of the largest bovid of all time, compared to a big bull modern American bison.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Pelagornis sandersi, the largest winged bird known to science compared to a human and other large birds1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Cymbospondylus youngorum, a newly described ichthyosaur that may have reached 50 or more ft long & may have been one of the world’s earliest giant predators.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Ptychodus mortoni, possibly the largest shark of the Mesozoic with some estimates of lengths of up to 10 m/33 ft1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
Leopard hauls its honey badger prey, face still showing plenty of tude, up a tree.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
Mounted Gastornis, a Paleocene-Eocene bird that was one of the largest land animals of its time & was a herbivore mistaken for a terror bird1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
It was at this point that the spotted owlet realized he screwed up in taking on this house crow and his murder.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
A clever bruin. Imagine him waiting for you when go drive out in the morning.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/natureismetal
An attempt to recreate the size of the vertebrae of Maraapunisaurus, however the real fossil is lost and unverified.2yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
The massive bird Dromornis stirtoni compared in size to a modern dromedary camel.1yr ⋅ aquilasr ⋅ r/Naturewasmetal
